If there were an award for shameless audacity, it could go to French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies, now using its own web pages to share tips on how to “protect yourself” from the heatwave. Since when do the arsonists claim they are working with the fire brigade?

Very sad to see stellar science reportrs & eds laid off @sciam.bsky.social. This isn't a job easily replaced bc it requires specialized knowledge+communication skills. Also sad: union says: "The company has sought to quash or tone down political or sensitive stories" www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

Faced with a slow-motion ecological crisis at an Alaska-sized scale, politicians from Juneau to Washington are stuck in the mud of a tedious old dream: Alaska LNG. @hannahstoryb.bsky.social digs into the failure of imagination (and billions in subsidies) buoying this boondoggle for @prospect.org.

This evening, Civil Eats will host a live event where we’ll discuss the future of small farms and local food systems following major USDA funding cuts. ➡️ buff.ly/p05mIxX

💥 "New York’s refusal to permit #fracking extends back for well over a decade, and from the outset was supported by serious environmental and public health concerns that remain completely well-founded." —@mountainkeeper.bsky.social Executive Director Ramsay Adams yonkerstimes.com/enviro-group...

Leaders around the world are banking on tech advances to solve climate change. One leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and then burying it underground forever. It sounds practical. Here’s why there's no conceivable way it can work: (THREAD)

Today, we launch a series @drilledmedia.bsky.social has been working on w/ @propublica.org for almost two years, looking at how Big Oil used universities to turn the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself. The first two stories are out now: projects.propublica.org/carbon-captu...

Check out New York Times coverage of our full website launch! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/c...

Will you make common cause with us as we use the navigation tools of science and ethics to help us get to a future with healthy communities, clean water and air, a stable climate worthy of our great grandchildren? All our gratitude for chipping in if you are able. 🙏 🧭 www.sehn.org/sehn/2026/6/...

Change of plan! I'm moving up today's livestream to noon PT (instead of 6pm; I'll have future evening session to make up for it!). Topics remain the same: Potential for widespread fire weather setup in late June across West, plus a federal science update.

Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon

"The Clean Air Act is still the law of the land." The NAACP's Abre' Conner condemns the Trump administration for asking a federal court to dismiss the civil rights group's lawsuit against Elon Musk and his xAI company for polluting minority communities with unauthorized gas turbines.

Good Read: Recent research shows rising temperatures are already taking a significant toll upon Americans’ health and bank balances. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing:

The Trump administration said it will pay an energy developer $765 million to cancel four more offshore wind projects.

Ranjana Bhandari of @liveablearlington.bsky.social wants "millions of watching Europeans to know that just 2,500 feet... away from the stadium, the U.S. subsidiary of French energy giant TotalEnergies is #fracking for gas." #LNG #ChildrensHealth #Methane #Cancer www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

As tech companies rush to build big A.I. data centers, some residents who live near them say a constant low-frequency vibration that can also be physically felt is ruining their health and homes.

NEW: Internal spending reviews at USDA and OMB slowed the federal government's response to the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating pest that threatens the U.S. cattle industry. “That sense of urgency wasn’t there,” said a former USDA official. For @politico.com

A federal judge in South Carolina ruled that the Trump administration illegally ended environmental justice grants, voiding EPA guidance that terminated the $2.8 billion program. But the order stopped short of ordering its reinstatement.

An new UN investigation warns that AI's water use in 2030 will match the needs of 1.3 billion people. “We have to think about that very long supply chain that starts with the extraction of critical minerals in the poor areas of the world,” says @kavehmadani.bsky.social, one of the report's authors.

President Trump is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West is facing a potentially epic summer fire season. n.pr/4us6kSh

1/ The UN General Assembly has adopted a landmark resolution backing the International Court of Justice’s 2025 climate advisory opinion. This is a major moment for climate accountability. 🧵

EPA removed historic hurricane information from its website, preventing communities, local officials, and scientists from accessing and learning from past federal disaster response efforts. Learn more in our latest Highlights From the Change Log series analysis: envirodatagov.org/information-...

Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is largely targeting people from the countries most vulnerable to displacement from climate-driven disasters, a Guardian analysis shows.

The Trump administration is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a key monitoring system for tracking the climate crisis. Policy expert David Helvarg calls it "the most advanced system for understanding the deep ocean," which was set to continue operating for at least another 15 years.

I spoke with doctors on the frontline of Ebola in Congo, and it made my heart race. “We live with fear in our stomachs,” Dr. Furaha told me. “Every day, there are healthcare providers and patients dying.” My latest @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

Farmworkers are at special risk for Parkinson’s, because the fields where they work are frequently doused with pesticides. But people who simply live near farms are also in danger. www.tpr.org/public-healt...

Yesterday—4 days after OMB released its proposal to revamp all federal funding—there were 3500+ comments. Today there are nearly 4,500. Our story on the damage the proposal could inflict on science and the researchers pushing back. Reported w/@marilenharo.bsky.social:

Trump just signed order "reclassifying" ~8,000 civil servants so they are easier to fire for political reasons -- this has been in the works since his first term www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Dismay as Trump officials to dismantle key ocean monitoring system

It's not just measles: Doctors are seeing more of a number of vaccine-preventable illnesses. And it's not just childhood vaccines: They're seeing more adults refuse tetanus shots after injuries, and even blood transfusions bc the blood might come from a vaccinated donor. From me and Dani Blum:

I keep looking for mitigating factors, or ways the impact of these new policies (which are already being applied, at least in part, per recent anecdotes/reporting) might have been overstated. And I have found none. This is a genuinely extreme, extraordinarily, and immensely dangerous development.

First CBS News. Then the Washington Post. Now NPR? They still have climate reporters, but they laid off their chief climate editor — who helped break the #ExxonKnew story — and folded the standalone climate desk. Details in CLIMATE-COLORED GOGGLES: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/npr-climat...

Sweeping draft regulations released by OMB pose one of the most significant threats to federally funded research in decades. The proposal would affect nearly every aspect of the scientific process. Read more: https://www.ascb.org/science-policy/federal-research-regulations-threat-american-science/

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

Say your final goodbyes to New York's nation-leading climate law.

National Park Entrance Fees Are Funding Trump’s D.C. Projects www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/c...

Under the continued leadership of Professor Joel D. Kaufman, the journal remains editorially independent, fully open-access, and dedicated to advancing environmental health research. APCs are waived for accepted articles through 2026. Read the latest issue today: buff.ly/fmnzaHo

Certified fire incident communicators work within federal agencies to keep the public informed about fires via television, radio, and the press. Unfortunately, Interior Secretary Burgum has pulled many of these specialists away from their agencies. https://ow.ly/Ubkq50Z2e7S #Wildfire

"Two new pieces of media shine a light on the enormous harm that invasive plastics are causing to our health across generations—& how Big Oil & the plastics industry have not only caused this crisis but are bent on continuing it with no end in sight." - CCI's Corey Riday-White in @commondreams.org

"As with fallout shelters during the Cold War, there never was, and surely is not now, any place to hide from the rampant destruction of planetary health." ICYMI, in our May newsletter, "Footnotes and Fallout Shelters" 📑 ☢️ ... Robert M. Gould, MD, on "Countering the Fallacy of a 'Bomb Shelter'":

If a malfunctioning chemical storage tank in Garden Grove ends up resulting in a fiery explosion, a map released by the Orange County Fire Authority on Saturday afternoon provided a potential preview of the areas that could see the most severe damage.

New York’s Gov. Kathy Hochul announced revisions to the state’s greenhouse gas emissions targets that will push off its 2030 deadline, but, organizers say residents are already suffering.

“From the moment that I said ‘cancer,’ it was like everybody snapped to attention,” she tells Sentient over the phone, a few weeks after speaking in front of her colleagues and just days after she publicly announced that her surgery was successful and that, for now, she is cancer free.

BRAVO to Dr. Bob Gould, SF Bay PSR board president for his piece: Countering the Fallacy of a "Bomb Shelter" Thank you @sehnetwork.bsky.social READ MORE: www.sehn.org/sehn/2026/5/...

If only NYS lawmakers & @governor.ny.gov could get a clue

🗞️New OpEd: #Authoritarian leaders pursue muscular governance that puts the concerns of a few people ahead of the planet. By @martaschaaf.bsky.social and Nazia Erum in @dialogueearth.bsky.social . Read more: dialogue.earth/en/justice/a...

🌟 Hooray! The City of Richmond became the first in CA to pass a resolution opposing any CO2 waste dumping projects & pipelines (from CCS) near its residents. www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2026/05/20/r...

A former nuclear reactor and rocket testing site were in the path of the growing Sandy Fire due to shifting winds, raising alarms from nearby families aware of the site’s history and spotty cleanup.